Device for recording vehicle speeds

• US 4,187,510 A
• Filed: 04/13/1978
• Issued: 02/05/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kienzle Apparate GmbH (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Kienzle Apparate GmbH (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Dold, Berthold
• Primary Examiner(s): Hartary, Joseph W.
• Application Number:
  US05/896,230
• Time in Patent Office: 663 Days
• Field of Search: 346/21, 346/18, 346/145, 346/137
• US Class Current: 346/21
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/06 in graphical form

Abstract

In a device for recording vehicle speeds on a record carrier, the carrier includes a recording layer of a suitable colored paste and is combined with a lid as a unit which is removably mounted on the device housing. The recording layer is located between the lid and the record carrier. The circumferential periphery of the lid and of the record carrier are interconnected. In this arrangement at least the record carrier is transparent.

Claims

1. Recording device for vehicles comprising a housing, a lid removably mounted on said housing, said lid including a ring forming the outer circumferential periphery of said lid and a cover part extending across said ring, said ring shaped to interengage with said housing so that said ring can be releasably disengaged from said housing, a record carrier located in said housing under said lid, said record carrier having an eraseable recording layer thereon formed of a suitable paste for recording speeds of a vehicle, means within said housing for driving said record carrier in accordance with at least one of time and distance traveled, said record carrier is removably mounted in said housing and is arranged to prevent tampering with the recording layer, means on said ring and said record carrier for interconnecting said lid and record carrier as an inseparable unit so that both parts can be removed as a unit from said housing of the recording device, said unit having a first outer surface and a second outer surface each extending transversely of the axis of said ring with said cover part forming the first outer surface and said record carrier forming the second outer surface, said record carrier having a surface facing toward the cover part of said lid and facing in the opposite direction from the second outer surface, and said recording layer formed on the surface of said record carrier facing said cover part so that the recording layer is located between the lid and the record carrier.

2. Recording device as set forth in claim 1, wherein at least said record carrier is transparent.

3. A device, as set forth in claim 2, wherein said cover part comprises a transparent plate mounted in said ring so that the recording layer on said record carrier is visible through said lid.

4. Recording device, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said means for interconnecting said lid and record carrier comprises that said ring having a radially inwardly facing circumferentially extending peripheral surface, said record carrier having a radially outwardly facing circumferentially extending peripheral surface, said inwardly facing peripheral surface on said ring being arranged to interlock with the outwardly facing peripheral surface on said record carrier for locking said record carrier within said lid so that said lid and record carrier are removable as a unit from said housing.

5. Recording device, as set forth in claim 4, wherein the radially inwardly facing peripheral surface of said ring has a projection extending radially inwardly from the remainder of the inwardly facing peripheral surface, said projection forming a shoulder extending transversely of the axial direction of said ring, and said projection including a sloping surface extending in the axial direction of said ring and extending from the radially inner end of said shoulder and diverging relative to the axis of said ring to the opposite end of said projection spaced from said shoulder and located more remote from the first outer surface of said lid, and the outer circumferentially extending peripheral surface of said record carrier having a radially inwardly formed recess forming a shoulder and the shoulder on said projection on said ring being engageable with the shoulder on the outer peripheral surface of said record carrier for interengaging said lid and record carrier, the radially inner diameter of said projection on said ring being smaller than the radially outer diameter of said shoulder on the outer peripheral surface of said record carrier.

6. Recording device, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said ring on the radially outer circumferential periphery thereof and the radially outer periphery of said housing adjacent the circumferential periphery of said lid having the same diameter, and a foil adhesively secured to said lid and said housing and bridging the joint between said lid and said housing at the radially outer circumferential periphery of said lid.